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LAUNCH DIRECTOR:
Three, two, one.

Liftoff.

NARRATOR:
For more than six decades, mankind has rocketed

into outer space.

But does the public
know the full extent

of what we've learned?

DAVID WHITEHEAD:
Astronauts have come out and said

that they have seen
these UFOs flying around,

that they've been followed.

NARRATOR:
Is there a classified mission

to uncover
extraterrestrial activity?

MIKE BARA:
Apollo 17 was, in fact,

MIKE BARA:
Apollo 17 was, in fact, a technology salvaging mission.

a technology salvaging mission.

Could it possibly have been
ancient alien technology?

NARRATOR:
And is the space program

withholding information
that will change life on Earth?

NICK POPE:
The implications of discovering extraterrestrial life

are profound.

Politics, religion, science--

everything will be affected.

NARRATOR:
Is there an undisclosed agenda

NARRATOR:
Is there an undisclosed agenda behind the so-called space race,

behind the so-called space race,

and top secret evidence
that holds the key

and top secret evidence that holds the key
to what could be our return to the stars?

to what could be
our return to the stars?

to what could be
our return to the stars? DAVID CHILDRESS:

DAVID CHILDRESS:
Everything that NASA does is supposedly above board.

But they are not sharing
all of the information.

Most of it is being kept secret.

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NARRATOR:
There is a doorway

in the universe.

Beyond it is
the promise of truth.

It demands
we question everything

we have ever been taught.

we have ever been taught.
The evidence is all around us.

The evidence is all around us.

The future is
right before our eyes.

We are not alone.

We are not alone.
We have never been alone.

We have never been alone.

October 4, 1957.

The Soviet Union
launches Sputnik 1,

the first satellite
to orbit the Earth.

Its success stunned the world

and shocked
the United States into action.

The space race was on,

and with it came
the creation of NASA,

the government's first
fully funded agency

charged with not only
putting humans into space,

but to have a man
land on the Moon by 1969.

In fact, so thorough was
NASA's focus on all aspects

of space exploration
that it commissioned a study

of space exploration that it commissioned a study
on "the implications of a discovery

on "the implications
of a discovery

of extraterrestrial life"

otherwise known as
the Brookings Report.

POPE: The Brookings
Institute Report

didn't just ask,
"Are there aliens out there?"

didn't just ask,
"Are there aliens out there?" It took it to the next level

It took it to the next level

and said, "What happens
when we find them?"

The implications of discovering

extraterrestrial life
are profound.

extraterrestrial life
are profound. And there are implications

And there are implications

that go across
all levels of society.

Politics, economics, religion,

Politics, economics, religion,
technology, science--

technology, science--

technology, science--
everything will be affected.

everything will be affected.

BARA: The Brookings Report
specifically says

you should release information,

little by little, bit by bit

so that people get culturally
acclimated to the idea

of aliens and extraterrestrials.

of aliens and extraterrestrials. GEORGE NOORY:
We will always speculate, those of us in broadcasting,

GEORGE NOORY:
We will always speculate, those of us in broadcasting,

why isn't government
coming forward

telling us what's going on,

telling us what's going on,
telling us the truth?

telling us the truth?

And a lot of people cite
the old Brookings Report

that basically said,
"We can't handle the truth."

There'd be mass chaos.

Religions would collapse.

Governments would collapse.

So the government has decided,

"We're not saying anything."

NARRATOR:
Does the existence of the Brookings Report

NARRATOR: Does the existence
of the Brookings Report provide evidence that not only

provide evidence that not only

does the United States
have protocols

and procedures in place

and procedures in place
in the event of extraterrestrial contact,

in the event of
extraterrestrial contact,

but that such protocols
have deliberately been

kept a secret
from the American public

kept a secret
from the American public for over 60 years?

for over 60 years?

for over 60 years?
But if so, why?

But if so, why?

I do not believe that government

I do not believe that government
essentially is negative,

essentially is negative,

essentially is negative,
evil and harmful, deceptive or lying.

evil and harmful,
deceptive or lying.

We should look back to 1938,

when Orson Welles did
his famous radio program

on Halloween night
called War of the Worlds,

wherein which
through an enactment

New York was to be invaded.

New York was to be invaded.
People around the country

People around the country

listening to this
radio program were terrified.

COMMANDER (over radio):
The machines are close together now,

and we're ready to attack.

Planes circling,
ready to strike.

Our governments
learned from this.

People will panic.

JOHN PODESTA:
Some people have thought that

it's important
to prepare the public.

You know, I've always said
I think the American public

can handle the truth.

The government would do well
to be more open about

what it's done in the past,
what it learned in the past,

what it's doing today
and what it'll do in the future.

NARRATOR:
While government officials

do not acknowledge that
intelligent alien life exists,

the space program
has made no secret

the space program
has made no secret of its ongoing efforts

of its ongoing efforts

to communicate
with extraterrestrials.

Cape Canaveral, Florida.

September 5, 1977.

NASA launches
the Voyager 1 probe.

Its mission is to journey
to Jupiter, Saturn,

Its mission is to journey
to Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune,

Uranus and Neptune,

and send back
important information.

But perhaps more interesting
than the information

But perhaps more interesting than the information
Voyager 1 was programmed to collect,

Voyager 1 was
programmed to collect,

was the information
it was carrying with it.

JON LOMBERG:
The two Voyager spacecrafts were each launched in 1977

on a mission of exploration
of the outer solar system.

And both of them

kept on going to leave

kept on going to leave
the solar system forever.

the solar system forever.

They weren't coming back.

And as a result of this,
NASA invited Carl

to put a message on both
of the Voyager spacecraft.

As conceived by
a team of experts

led by famed
astronomer Carl Sagan,

Voyager's so-called
"Golden Record"

was designed to send greetings
from the people of planet Earth

to whatever form of
alien life it might encounter

that had intelligence
enough to decode it.

I'd been collaborating with Carl
for about five years.

We shared a passion
for this topic--

extraterrestrial intelligence
and how to communicate with it.

And I happened to be
at the right place

at the right time
when he was trying to form

at the right time when he was trying to form
a small team to actually make the message.

a small team to actually
make the message.

a small team to actually make the message.
I was a design director on the project

I was a design director
on the project

and my main role was
designing, with Frank Drake,

the series of
photographs and diagrams

that show what the Earth
and human beings are like.

JOSH RICHARDS:
The Golden Record kick-started

this thought process,

this approach to philosophy of
"How do we define who we are,

"if we came across
an intelligent civilization?

How would we represent
ourselves?"

LOMBERG:
The Golden Record shows Earth on a good day.

Some of our best music,

a lot of pleasant-looking
people saying "Hello."

No war, no poverty,
no injustice.

No war, no poverty,
no injustice. And this was by design.

And this was by design.

First of all, it's not obvious
how you would show these things

to an extraterrestrial.

I mean, a starving baby

evokes a huge emotional
reaction from us.

Maybe a baby is supposed to look
that way, they wouldn't know.

It seemed important to me,

in being asked
to design this thing,

that it should tell a story.

And the story is,
of course, our story.

It's the story of our planet,
it's the story of life,

it's the story of humans, and
it's the story of our future.

RICHARDS:
In terms of the protocols

that we would use
in actually replying back

to a message that we got from
an intelligent civilization,

different experts
have different opinions.

Some people believe that
we should try and represent

the best version of ourselves.

On the other end
of the spectrum,

you could potentially
upload the entire Internet,

you could potentially
upload the entire Internet, along with all of our dark sides

along with all of our dark sides

so that you could have a full
and complete picture

of who we are as a species.

NARRATOR:
Does the design and implementation

of Carl Sagan's Golden Record
provide evidence of the belief

that intelligent life
exists in the universe?

If so, is that belief

the product of mere
scientific speculation

the product of mere scientific speculation
or a conviction based on previous

or a conviction
based on previous

extraterrestrial encounters?

For the answer,
ancient astronaut theorists

point to
the incredible circumstances

that set mankind
on its course to the stars.

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NARRATOR: Huntsville, Alabama.
July 24, 1969.

(crowd cheering)

A crowd of thousands gathers
in Courthouse Square

to cheer on the triumphant
return of Dr. Wernher von Braun,

just hours after Apollo 11's
Columbia Command Module

splashed down
in the Pacific Ocean.

The United States had achieved
what many believed

was impossible--
putting a man on the Moon.

The picture ran in newspapers

around America
the following day,

celebrating the genius
rocket engineer

who was behind it all.

Von Braun is a titan, you know,

he's one of the major figures
of the last century.

And he was
way ahead of his time.

Von Braun adamantly believed

that humanity's future
was in space.

He is the greatest
voice we've had

in the history
of the space program.

NARRATOR:
Considered by NASA to be the "father of rocket science,"

von Braun is credited
with either inventing

or helping to develop
many of the most sophisticated

or helping to develop many of the most sophisticated
aerial technologies that exist today,

aerial technologies
that exist today,

like the supersonic
antiaircraft missile...

...the ballistic missile,

...the ballistic missile,
the first American satellite,

the first American satellite,

and the first
U.S. space vehicles,

including the enormous
Saturn V rocket

that enabled man
to reach the Moon.

PEARLMAN:
Without exaggeration,

the Apollo Program
has been called

the "greatest achievement that
mankind has ever accomplished."

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Without Wernher von Braun,

Without Wernher von Braun,

we would've not
reached the Moon.

NARRATOR:
Von Braun's incredible engineering feats

were matched only by
his all-consuming crusade

to send man into space.

But who exactly was
this engineering genius

with such extraordinary
visions for the future?

Why did he believe
so strongly that man could,

and should, travel into space?

And what did he expect
to find when we got there?

? ?

Wernher von Braun
was born March 23, 1912,

in a small town
in eastern Prussia.

The second of three sons,

Wernher grew up a child
of wealth and privilege.

But while he was born
into an accomplished family,

Wernher's keen intellect
and unusual passions stood out.

Wernher's keen intellect
and unusual passions stood out. His father once said,

His father once said,

"I don't know where
his talent comes from,"

and stated on more
than one occasion

and stated on more than one occasion
that he considered his son a mystery.

that he considered
his son a mystery.

Wernher von Braun
was multitalented.

Both sides of his brain
were working.

He could think about
technical things

and imagine rocketry
and space travel

and imagine rocketry and space travel
but he was an accomplished musician.

but he was
an accomplished musician.

And these traits
manifested very early.

I think his parents knew
by the time he was four or five

that he was very special.

His mother gave him
a telescope when he was young

and he looked at the Moon
and said, "I want to go there.

I want to build the machine
that will go to the Moon."

And of course he did
half a century later.

NARRATOR:
Wernher von Braun grew up in a time

NARRATOR:
Wernher von Braun grew up in a time

when German
science fiction authors

focused on science
utopian novels

that often featured
an idealized German engineer

who solves the world's problems
through science and technology.

Movies such as
Fritz Lang's Metropolis

and Woman in the Moon also
stirred the public's imagination

and no doubt had a powerful
influence on von Braun.

For a young man growing up
in the 1920s and 30s,

space travel was considered
too fantastic and farfetched

to ever be possible.

And although the Wright
Brothers had achieved

the first powered
flight in 1903,

the horse and buggy
was still a widely used

mode of transportation.

The achievement of
putting a man on the Moon

is something that was,
at the time,

really almost impossible
and almost unthinkable.

Wernher von Braun was obsessed
with going to the Moon

and going to Mars from
the time he was a little boy.

And that was his destiny.

NARRATOR:
In his teens, von Braun wrote papers on orbital flight,

and by the incredibly
young age of 20,

he was named the head of
Germany's rocket program

by Army Artillery Officer
Captain Walter Dornberger.

Dornberger would later
write in his 1952 book

V-2, the Firing into Space
that he was deeply impressed

by the young von Braun's energy,

shrewdness, and astonishing
theoretical knowledge.

IMPEY:
When he worked towards one of his goals,

he would apply himself
and master a subject

he would apply himself
and master a subject in very short order.

in very short order.

He'd been trained
as an engineer,

and doing a PhD
in physics is not trivial.

And he got his PhD at an age
when most German students

were still undergraduates.

NARRATOR:
But how is it that Wernher von Braun,

whose contemporaries included
such scientific geniuses

as Nikola Tesla,

Robert Oppenheimer,
and Albert Einstein

was so far ahead of everyone
when it came to rocketry?

And what was behind
his obsession

to travel to the stars?

Some ancient astronaut
theorists believe

that the boy genius

may have been guided
by otherworldly forces.

Maybe he drew his inspiration
from science fiction.

Maybe it came from his,
his own imagination

and vision of
what the future should be.

Or maybe it was inspired
by something extraterrestrial.

DAVID WILCOCK: Some sort of
extraterrestrial contact

might have happened
with Wernher von Braun.

Something or someone
might have reached him,

and saw where we needed to go
as a civilization,

and gave him the tools
and the insights

that he needed to be able to
build our way out into space.

TSOUKALOS:
Some have suggested that people

like Albert Einstein,
Tesla, that they've had

this extraterrestrial
intervention,

that they have had access
to this abundance of knowledge.

And the question has arisen,

"Did Wernher von Braun,
was he also one of them?"

Because the vision he had,

the ideas were incredible
for their time.

? ?

NARRATOR:
Might extraterrestrials have chosen Wernher von Braun

to propel mankind
to the Moon and beyond

as some ancient astronaut
theorists propose?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining
von Braun's connection

to a mysterious Nazi institution

known as the Ahnenerbe.

For years, Wernher von Braun

avoided becoming a member
of the Nazi Party,

avoided becoming a member
of the Nazi Party, but on November 12, 1937

but on November 12, 1937

he was commanded to join
and did so.

To hear him tell it,
he was, uh, had no choice.

That he, it was
he either do that,

That he, it was
he either do that, or face the same fate

or face the same fate

as everyone else who disobeyed
the Nazis-- certain death.

Von Braun didn't think the Nazi
movement was the way to go.

But it was a means to an end
to develop his rockets.

NARRATOR:
In 1944, with the help of additional funding

from the German government,

von Braun launched
the 45-foot 27,000-pound A-4

later rechristened
the V-2 or Vengeance Weapon.

While von Braun's first rocket
only reached 1.4 miles,

the V-2 climbed to
an altitude of 108.5 miles,

and became the first man-made
object to ever reach space.

PEARLMAN:
The V2 rocket was a one-stage liquid-fueled rocket that was

not comparable to
any other rocket at the time

because there weren't
other rockets at the time.

You had rockets in development.

What von Braun was able
to do with the V2

was combine the theory with
the practical application,

and develop the first rocket
ever to be able to reach space.

NARRATOR:
How was von Braun able to advance

Germany's rocket program so far
in just a few short years?

Was it due to a desperate nation

supplying him with massive
amounts of money and material?

Or could there be
another reason?

On July 1, 1935,

Hitler's SS Commander
Heinrich Himmler,

Hitler's SS Commander
Heinrich Himmler, established Ahnenerbe,

established Ahnenerbe,

an elite Nazi institute

that purported
to research the cultural

and archaeological
history of the Germans.

However, its true purpose
proved far more bizarre.

BARA:
Ahnenerbe was based on the idea that the Aryan race was

the most directly descended
from ancient perhaps alien gods.

CHILDRESS: Part of their job was
to literally go

all over the world looking for
special occult artifacts,

things like
the Ark of the Covenant

things like
the Ark of the Covenant and the Holy Grail.

and the Holy Grail.

You have to ask yourself,
where would von Braun

have gotten that kind
of knowledge so quickly?

One of the possible reasons
is that the Ahnenerbe,

with their researches,

had actually
discovered technology

through some
of their expeditions

through some
of their expeditions to find ancient relics,

to find ancient relics,

and their search
really for ancient technology.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible

that the Ahnenerbe
discovered artifacts--

possibly of ancient
extraterrestrial origin--

that helped them advance
their weapons research?

Some ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

and they suggest
that further clues

can be found by exploring just
how this former German scientist

came to be the head
of NASA's rocketry program.

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NARRATOR:
Oberjoch, Germany, May 1945.

In the wake of
Adolph Hitler's suicide

and the German surrender,

Wernher von Braun
and hundreds of other

Wernher von Braun
and hundreds of other German rocket engineers,

German rocket engineers,

surrender to the U.S. Army's
Counter Intelligence Corps.

But it was a move von Braun
had planned months before.

BARA:
Von Braun and his colleagues

made a conscious decision
to surrender to the Americans

made a conscious decision
to surrender to the Americans because they felt

because they felt

they would have access
to higher technology

and they would have
a better opportunity to fulfill

his dream of going to the Moon
and going to Mars

his dream of going to the Moon
and going to Mars to explore what was there.

to explore what was there.

NARRATOR:
Although he was a known member of the SS,

Von Braun leveraged his position

as the head of Germany's
V-2 rocket program

to convince
U.S. authorities to bring him

and roughly 100 handpicked
members of his team to America.

Eventually,
some 1,500 German scientists

and technicians would follow
von Braun to the U.S.

through a top secret program
called Operation Paperclip.

Operation Paperclip was a...

an executive-ordered
private secret operation

to bring over Nazi scientists,

mostly Nazi rocket scientists
and engineers to the U.S.

to help build up a rocketry
program for the United States.

? ?

Operation Paperclip was kept
a secret for decades.

And you have to wonder whether
it was this special knowledge,

that these Nazi scientists had

that we needed so desperately
for our own space program.

From what we're able
to glean today,

Nazi technology at the end
of World War II was so advanced

that they had things that are
still science fiction today--

antigravity,

beam weapons,

flying saucers,

flying saucers,
flying triangles,

flying triangles,

things that are still
kept secret today.

? ?

NARRATOR:
In June 1945,

U.S. Army officials
holding German scientists

reported that the Nazis

were 25 years ahead of
the United States in rocketry.

You have to wonder
where this knowledge came from.

And also whether von Braun,
who was really the spearhead

And also whether von Braun, who was really the spearhead
of all the Nazi rocket technology

of all the Nazi
rocket technology

if he had also gotten
information from other sources,

perhaps extraterrestrials,

that helped him advance
so quickly in rocket technology.

NARRATOR:
In the fall of 1945, the U.S. Army assigned

the 33-year-old von Braun
and his German colleagues

to the White Sands
Proving Ground

to the White Sands Proving Ground
Missile Test Range in New Mexico.

Missile Test Range
in New Mexico.

Since the 1940s,

White Sands has been
the military's testing site

for cutting-edge developments
in rocketry and space travel.

According to official records,

Von Braun's task was
to help teach the Americans

how to rebuild and launch
captured V-2 rockets

brought back from Germany.

But there are others
who believe von Braun

had another, top secret job.

Former Army Lieutenant
Colonel Philip Corso,

in his book,
The Day After Roswell

claimed the facility also
housed classified R&D projects,

including the study
of extraterrestrial craft.

Lieutenant Colonel Philip Corso

served in the U.S. military
for many years,

and he claimed
that he actually worked

on recovered alien technology...

...including the crashed
vehicle that was recovered

at Roswell, New Mexico in 1947.

Now, there is a theory that
alien technology from Roswell

and maybe from other crashes too

was actually taken to
the White Sands Proving Ground.

That's where
Wernher von Braun worked,

and that all this R&D
that was going on at White Sands

was actually, at least in part,
alien technology.

NARRATOR:
Corso claimed that these reverse-engineering efforts

resulted in today's
integrated circuit chips,

fiber optics,

and lasers.

WILLIAM HENRY:
The sudden explosion

of post-World War II technology

of post-World War II technology
is unexplainable to many.

is unexplainable to many.

This is why they point
to Wernher von Braun

and the Nazis as the source
of this technology.

NARRATOR:
There are also claims that a top secret Nazi super weapon

called Die Glocke...

...ended up in the hands
of the Americans.

Die Glocke, or the Bell,
is said to represent

the pinnacle of the Nazi SS
Wonder Weapons program.

It's a metallic bell,
nine feet in diameter

with many mysterious properties.

with many mysterious properties.
Scientists who have looked at this

Scientists who have
looked at this

and the recollections of
its appearance and its usage

suggest that it had
anti-gravitational properties.

We have to legitimately consider
that the German scientists

were at the root of all this,

and that their
transferred technology

and that their
transferred technology is exactly what is now

is exactly what is now

being used in advanced so-called
"alien reproduction vehicles"

built by our own
military industrial complex.

NARRATOR:
It was rumored that much of the Nazis' secret weaponry

was hidden at the Mittelwerk
underground research facility.

In the 1990s,

German archaeologist
and scientist Willi Kramer

determined that somehow
70 tons of material

that used to exist
at Mittelwerk is now missing.

Is it possible that the missing
material ended up in U.S. hands?

Perhaps further clues
can be found

by examining the story
of how Wernher von Braun

put a man on the Moon.

NARRATOR:
In the early 1950s

the American public seemed
to have an insatiable appetite

the American public seemed
to have an insatiable appetite for science fiction.

for science fiction.

It seemed that in the wake
of the atomic bomb,

anything was possible.

Wernher von Braun viewed
this fixation as his opportunity

to get the public to share in
his dream of space exploration

and initiated a plan

to turn science fiction
into science fact.

In 1952, he captured
the public's imagination

with an illustrated
series of articles

in Collier's magazine,
depicting life in space.

Wernher von Braun
was a mixture of scientist,

engineer and visionary.

Von Braun was
that rare combination

and perhaps the mystic
visionary in him

lifted his work above
the common sphere

of scientific
and engineering achievement.

After the Soviet Union
launched Sputnik in 1957

and became the first country

to send a man-made object
into Earth's orbit,

America's interest in space
shifted into high gear.

And over the next several years,

Wernher von Braun
led the design team

that sent the first
American satellite into space

and a man into orbit...

...all aboard rockets

based on von Braun's
original V-2 designs.

LAUNCH DIRECTOR:
Three, two, one.

NARRATOR:
But as impressive as these feats were,

the next step man would take

would be far greater
than any that had come before.

On July 20, 1969,

57-year-old Wernher von Braun
watched from inside

Mission Control
as a human being,

for the first time in history,

stepped foot on a celestial
body other than Earth.

CHARLES DUKE:
We copy you down, Eagle.

NEIL ARMSTRONG:
Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed.

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That's one small step for man,
one giant leap for mankind.

NARRATOR:
Wernher von Braun's boyhood dream,

NARRATOR:
Wernher von Braun's boyhood dream,

which so many had called
an impossible feat,

had become a reality.

POPE:
We effectively went from horse and buggy

to landing people
on the Moon in 60 years.

It's an exponential
increase in technology.

It's an absolute explosion.

It's phenomenal that
we came so far so fast.

IMPEY: Getting to the Moon
involves extremely

precise orbital calculations

and the possibility of
missing the Moon,

of not capturing it
into an orbit

is a matter of a tiny fraction
of a degree in the trajectory

and a small percentage
of the speed coming in.

So the ability to adjust
the orbit in real time

and adjust those calculations,
it was a stunning achievement.

NARRATOR:
But how did von Braun know

all the specific information
needed to calculate

not only how to send
man to the Moon,

but to bring him back to Earth?

Where did he get data
such as the exact gravitational

Where did he get data
such as the exact gravitational pull of the Moon,

pull of the Moon,

the speed needed
to break Earth's orbit,

or the effects of
space radiation on the ship?

? ?

I consider it to be
entirely possible

that the endowment

of extraterrestrial technology

that fell into the hands of guys
like Wernher von Braun...

...was in fact a key element
that allowed us to make

technological leaps forward

much faster than we ever
would have been able to do

if we were without the benefit
of this advanced technology.

Wernher von Braun wanted
to go further

than just send people to
the Moon and bring them back.

Ultimately, he was talking
about colonies in space.

Maybe it was inspired by
something extraterrestrial.

NARRATOR:
Could it be that von Braun

was not only guided
by an alien intelligence

but that the incredible
achievement of reaching the Moon

but that the incredible
achievement of reaching the Moon really was made possible

really was made possible

with the help of
extraterrestrial technology?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

and suggest there's evidence
that when the first astronauts

and suggest there's evidence
that when the first astronauts began traveling into space

began traveling into space

they encountered far more
than has ever been revealed.

NARRATOR: For decades,
the United States government

has maintained secrecy

regarding possible
extraterrestrial activity,

and evidence of alien contact

has remained top secret.

The U.S. space program
has also kept private

any reports of
unexplainable sightings

despite many credible firsthand
accounts by NASA astronauts.

Everything that NASA does
is supposedly above board.

Everything they do,
they should tell us about.

We should know about all
of their launches and missions.

They themselves are not
sharing all of the information.

Most of it is being kept secret.

? ?

NARRATOR:
The Baikonur Cosmodrome.

April 12, 1961.

The Vostok 1 rocket
achieves liftoff

The Vostok 1 rocket
achieves liftoff and Soviet cosmonaut

and Soviet cosmonaut

Yuri Gagarin is heralded
as the first human in space.

The event serves
as a wake-up call

to the United States and NASA,

whose Project Mercury program

would-- over
the next two years--

launch six of its own
astronauts into space.

BARA:
The achievement of putting a man in space was almost a miracle.

Nobody knows what they might see
or encounter out there.

Extraterrestrial spacecraft,
or even ETs themselves.

Extraterrestrial spacecraft, or even ETs themselves.
LAUNCH DIRECTOR: Liftoff.

LAUNCH DIRECTOR:
Liftoff.

NARRATOR: Although the first
five Mercury missions go off

- without incident...
- LAUNCH DIRECTOR: Liftoff. 30 minutes after the hour.

NARRATOR:
...during the sixth and final mission,

astronaut Gordon Cooper
reports an unusual encounter.

While aboard his spacecraft,

While aboard his spacecraft,
he reports a green, glowing object

he reports a green,
glowing object

quickly approaching his capsule.

quickly approaching his capsule.
The UFO is also picked up

The UFO is also picked up

by NASA's tracking station.

But by the time Cooper splashes
down in the Pacific Ocean,

reporters are told

that any questions
about the incident

that any questions
about the incident are strictly forbidden.

are strictly forbidden.

There's no question
that NASA actually has

protocols in place for
how astronauts should deal with

and report
or not report anomalies.

Now, over the years
there have been astronauts

that have kind of
broken those protocols.

that have kind of broken those protocols.
Gordon Cooper is one who talked a lot

Gordon Cooper
is one who talked a lot

about a UFO sighting he had
on a Mercury spacecraft,

and that upset
quite a few people at NASA.

NARRATOR:
In June 1965,

two years after
Gordon Cooper's flight,

Gemini 4 astronaut,
James McDivitt,

Gemini 4 astronaut,
James McDivitt, reports seeing a metallic object

reports seeing a metallic object

flying in orbit
alongside his spacecraft.

And once again, the event
is quickly covered up.

There have been
many stories over the years

coming from astronauts
of various missions--

from Mercury missions,
from the Apollo missions,

and even from the Soviet
missions to space

where astronauts have come out
and said that they have seen

these UFOs flying around,
that they've been followed,

that they've seen
unconventional aircraft

that they've seen
unconventional aircraft on some of their missions.

on some of their missions.

BARA:
There's a story that Buzz Aldrin tells

about Apollo 11 where
the Apollo 11 spacecraft

was followed for many,
many hours by an object

that was so strange that they
actually reported on it

through their private channels.

ALDRIN: I'm looking
out the window, and I say,

"What's that?"

There's an object that's moving
with respect to everything else.

Geez! It's not supposed
to be doing that.

Wonder how far away it is.

If it's a longways away,
it's going mighty fast.

If it's not too far away,

it, uh, maybe
isn't going very fast.

Wonder what it is.

"Hey, Neil, look at this."

"Hey, Neil, look at this."
We look at it--

We look at it--

We look at it--
"God, what is that?"

"God, what is that?"

"Probably the upper
stage rocket."

"Yeah, but didn't we just
watch that thing carefully

"out in front of us,
out the window,

"out in front of us, out the window,
light its engine and go... (whooshes)?"

light its engine
and go... (whooshes)?"

"Well, I guess that's not
what we're looking at...

'cause that's a longways away."

"What's the odds
that it's some alien

or Russian or something else?"

But we were not about to
cancel the Moon mission

and putt-putt over there
to find out which one it was.

and putt-putt over there
to find out which one it was. (chuckles)

(chuckles)

WHITEHEAD:
There's been many astronauts that have come forward

that have talked about this,

so it seems like some of them
want to talk about it

and others are either
afraid to talk about it,

or they've been silenced
for some reason.

NARRATOR:
One person involved with the early space program

who did not remain silent
was JoAnn Donaldson,

a young biomedical
engineer at NASA.

In 1972,

during the Apollo 17
Moon mission,

Donaldson's job was to monitor
the astronauts' vital signs

and to observe their preflight
and postflight recovery.

JOANN DONALDSON:
Ron Evans was in charge

of the command module while

Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt
were on the surface of the Moon.

When the command module
would orbit the Moon,

part of the orbit
would take it behind the Moon,

what we call, "Loss of Signal"
to Mission Control.

Day two, Ron came out
from behind the Moon,

reported in to Mission Control.

And Gene comes up
on the comm link and says,

"Hey, Ron, you're not lonely
up there without us, are you?"

And Ron reported back,
says, "Nope, I got company."

And Ron reported back, says, "Nope, I got company."
Everybody was just kind of taken aback.

Everybody was just
kind of taken aback.

It was like,
you know, "Company?"

That itself implies that
there was something else

up there with him.

Well, Mission Control's
first reaction was,

"Guys, are you joking?"

"Guys, are you joking?"
And Ron says, "No, this is not a joke.

And Ron says,
"No, this is not a joke.

"There is an object,
flying in formation with me

up here, circling the Moon."

When Ron reported
that the object

was leaving his orbit,
he calculated that

they had been
in formation with him

for approximately five to five
and a half orbits of the Moon.

NARRATOR:
But as far as the public was concerned,

NARRATOR:
But as far as the public was concerned,

nothing out of
the ordinary happened.

At the exact moment that
astronaut Ron Evans reported

he was not alone,

NASA officials
disconnected the public feed

for media outlets.

The following day,
NASA ordered a conference call

for everyone involved
in the incident.

DONALDSON:
We were all told that we're gonna continue on

with the mission
as if nothing has happened.

And do not discuss this anomaly

with anyone
outside of your command.

After the Apollo 17 crew

splashed down
in the Pacific Ocean,

splashed down
in the Pacific Ocean, Joann Donaldson examined Evans

Joann Donaldson examined Evans

as part of the post-mission
recovery procedure.

DONALDSON:
Ron was sitting up on the side of his bunk,

and he goes, "Well,
I'm reliving what I saw

"while I was in orbit
around the Moon.

"I don't think
the Russians have launched

"something this big into orbit.

"I estimate this thing was
40, 45 five feet long.

"I estimate this thing was
40, 45 five feet long. It was a cigar shape."

It was a cigar shape."

BARA:
Now any cylindrical object like that

is not gonna be
something that we made.

So, what was it?

So, what was it?
Clearly, it was not one of ours.

Clearly, it was not one of ours.

WHITEHEAD:
We trust these astronauts to report back on what they see.

They're essentially scientists

that are exploring space
on our behalf.

But a lot of people are
unaware of the fact

that many of our astronauts
have spoken openly about UFOs.

Many of them were fighter pilots
before they became astronauts,

and they have seen
craft flying as pilots.

Could it be they've been
pulled aside and told,

"This is all you're
allowed to say and no more,"

because NASA is trying to
silence these astronauts

from telling the truth?

? ?

NARRATOR:
Another Apollo astronaut who openly admitted his belief

in extraterrestrial contact
was Edgar Mitchell,

the Lunar Module pilot
for Apollo 14.

In his later years,

he claimed many of
his colleagues had strange,

paranormal experiences
during their missions,

and frequently declared
that most UFO phenomena

are directly connected
to extraterrestrial activity.

EDGAR MITCHELL: I have had no
firsthand personal experience,

but all the evidence
from the research people

that I know from both
Europe and the United States

have investigated
all the sightings

have investigated
all the sightings from dozens of years.

from dozens of years.

And it's pretty sure
it's all true.

I believe that the alien craft,
presuming they're the reality,

I think they are
and others think they are,

have been coming
for a long, long time.

NARRATOR:
As the sixth person to walk on the Moon,

Mitchell's opinions
concerning UFOs

and their connection
to extraterrestrial encounters

have been difficult to dismiss.

And according to
ancient astronaut theorists,

other astronauts

have not only witnessed
unidentified craft

have not only witnessed
unidentified craft during their missions

during their missions

but have also discovered
the existence of...

alien artifacts.

RONALD EVANS:
Tranquility Base, Houston?

Guidance recommendation is PNGS
and you're cleared for takeoff.

NARRATOR:
July 21, 1969.

Approximately 21 and a half
hours after landing on the Moon,

the Lunar Module Eagle lifts off

to rejoin the command
module Columbia

and begin the return to Earth.

The astronauts take with them

47.5 pounds of
lunar surface material,

and they leave
some items behind as well,

and they leave
some items behind as well, like scientific instruments,

like scientific instruments,

an American flag,

and a small plaque commemorating
the Apollo 11 mission.

But perhaps most curious
of the items left on the Moon

was a small bag containing a
gold replica of an olive branch

and a silicon disk
with recorded messages

of peace and goodwill
from 73 world leaders.

Why were these symbolic
messages sent up into space?

Some ancient astronaut
theorists suggest

that the mastermind
behind the Apollo program,

Wernher von Braun
was expecting to find

more on the Moon than NASA
wanted the public to know.

Wernher von Braun famously said
that the next world war

will be the war against the ETs.

His remarks were
hugely controversial.

Some people have said
that he was simply saying,

"There can't be
another world war

now that we've got
atomic weapons."

Other people have speculated
that he knew something,

and he was hinting
at some terrible truth.

Another story relates
that von Braun claimed

that we had help from "them"
to get us into space.

If anybody knew about
the extraterrestrials,

it would've been a guy
like Wernher von Braun.

NARRATOR: Some ancient astronaut
theorists propose that not only

did alien beings have a hand
in man reaching the Moon

but that once there,
we discovered further evidence

but that once there,
we discovered further evidence that we are not alone.

that we are not alone.

And they claim
the strongest proof can be found

by examining our last
manned trip to the Moon--

the Apollo 17 mission in 1972.

We definitely
weren't told everything

and there's monkey business
played with the Moon landings,

of course, as far as
what we know about them.

(indistinct radio chatter)

BARA: Apollo 17 was in fact
a technology salvaging mission.

ASTRONAUT:
Looks like there's been a geologist here before us.

BARA:
Some of it has to do with the actual landing site itself.

There were several
mountains in the area

that don't really
look like mountains.

One of them is very
hexagonal looking.

And they bear
a striking resemblance

And they bear
a striking resemblance to actual artificial structures.

to actual artificial structures.

The astronauts went directly
for this hexagonal mountain,

they parked on
the hill above it,

and then they got
out of the lunar rover.

What's interesting is that
for the next 20 or 30 minutes

NASA has control of
the camera on the rover,

NASA has control of
the camera on the rover, and they point it at everything

and they point it at everything

and they point it at everything
except what the astronauts are doing.

except what
the astronauts are doing.

They had plenty
of time to rappel down

inside of this
V-shaped depression.

(indistinct radio chatter)

It's really interesting
that we don't see

any of the astronauts at all

until they come back
to the lunar rover.

ASTRONAUT:
Here we go.

BARA: There's no question
that the mystery would be

what they were looking for,
what they found,

could it possibly have been
ancient alien technology?

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest that even

more compelling than
the hexagonal formation

is what appears at another spot
that was filmed...

...the Shorty crater.

SCHMITT:
There is orange soil!

CERNAN:
Well, don't move it until I see it.

SCHMITT:
It's all over! Orange!

BARA:
In Shorty crater you can see orange soil

that was discovered
at the landing site

and the reason the soil
was orange was because

it had a great deal of
oxygen in it,

it had a great deal of
oxygen in it, which was kind of a surprise.

which was kind of a surprise.

But the biggest surprise is if
you actually look in the crater

what you see are objects
that at first,

might to the naked eye,
appear to be rocks.

But in fact as you study it
with an engineer's eye

what you see is mechanisms.

And right in the middle of it

there's a very
interesting object

that as you zoom up on it,

it begins to look more
and more like a human head.

NARRATOR:
Mike Bara and fellow researcher Richard Hoagland

obtained early generation
negatives from Shorty crater,

and upon enhancing
the colors present in the film

found that the object
appears metallic.

BARA:
The most intriguing thing

is that on the upper
part of the mouth

there was a bright
distinct red stripe

painted across it.

And it glowed and shone
as if it were metallic.

You then come to the realization

that what you're probably
looking at is the head

of a humanoid appearing robot.

The leftovers of an explosion

that damaged and destroyed
a bunch of mechanical stuff.

NARRATOR:
Did NASA really recover alien artifacts from the Moon?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

and suggest further
evidence can be found

in the form of
extraterrestrial structures

on the lunar surface.

NARRATOR:
November 1966.

Three years before
the Apollo astronauts

Three years before
the Apollo astronauts made it to the Moon,

made it to the Moon,

the Orbiter 2 spacecraft
situates itself in lunar orbit.

It was designed to capture

high-resolution
images of the surface

high-resolution
images of the surface to assist with the selection

to assist with the selection

of landing sites
for the Apollo missions.

One image in particular catches
the eye of researchers

as it shows what appear to be

as it shows what appear to be
the shadows of several pointed spires.

the shadows of several
pointed spires.

On November 20, 1966,

the lunar Orbiter 2,
NASA's probe,

photographs this area
on the Moon

that was actually
in the Sea of Tranquility,

only 300 kilometers away

from where Apollo 11
ended up landing.

And what's so bizarre
is that this area has

undeniable architecture
that looks like

undeniable architecture that looks like
what you would see from obelisks.

what you would see
from obelisks.

There's eight different spires.

And scientists calculated
that the largest of these spires

would be an obelisk
that is 15 stories tall.

These do appear to be just
like an Egyptian-style obelisk.

But what the heck
are they doing on the Moon?

TSOUKALOS: Of the multiple
anomalies on the Moon,

I think the spires are some
of the most fascinating ones

because astronomers
have calculated

that these spires are very tall

for them to be exclusively
natural occurrences.

BARA:
They have to be artificial,

simply from the fact that
the Moon has been bombarded

in kind of an incessant
meteoric rain

for 4.5 billion years.

There is no way that anything
bigger than a basketball

can be standing straight up
on the lunar surface.

ALAN BUTLER:
The inference is that NASA

would have known this
and that one of the reasons

that they sent
their mission there

was so that the astronauts
of the Apollo mission could gain

more information about these

artificial structures
on the Moon.

(overlapping chatter)

Capcom, we're go for undocking.

ARMSTRONG:
Roger. Eagle's undocked.

ARMSTRONG: Roger. Eagle's undocked.
BARA: On Apollo 11

BARA:
On Apollo 11

when the astronauts were
descending to the lunar surface

they got this very
strange computer alarm.

- (beeping)
- 1202 alarm.

1202 alarm.

1202 alarm.
BARA: The famous 1202 computer alarm.

BARA:
The famous 1202 computer alarm.

And basically,
nobody knew what it was.

What it came out to,
was that the computer itself

was overwhelmed
with information...

...because Buzz Aldrin,
the lunar module pilot,

had turned on the radars
on the lunar lander.

It had two radars.

It had two radars.
It had a side looking radar

It had a side looking radar

and it had a docking radar.

So in other words,
you had one that pointed down,

and one that
pointed to the side.

Now, if there's nothing

on the surface of the Moon,

if there are
no artificial structures,

if there are no spires sticking
10-20 stories up into the sky,

why would you turn
on the side radar?

There's no reason to,
but Aldrin did it.

And I think it's because...

he knew and NASA knew
that there was some danger

of running into these things.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that NASA actually has knowledge

NARRATOR: Is it possible that NASA
actually has knowledge of structures on the Moon?

of structures on the Moon?

In 1960, NASA officials
commissioned a report

from the Brookings Institute

to weigh the implications

of the discovery of evidence
of extraterrestrial life.

Due to the findings
of the report,

researchers believe
it was determined

before the Moon missions

to keep any extraterrestrial
findings hidden from the public,

to keep any extraterrestrial
findings hidden from the public, for fear of social unrest.

for fear of social unrest.

Since the time of the very
first Apollo Moon missions,

researchers have pored over

NASA and Russian photos
of the Moon

NASA and Russian photos
of the Moon looking for structures.

looking for structures.

looking for structures.
And they found some unusual things.

And they found
some unusual things.

You would think in fact
that if extraterrestrials

are on the Moon or were

that they would've built
all kinds of structures.

that they would've built all kinds of structures.
And we're able to see some of these,

And we're able to see
some of these,

And we're able to see
some of these, even though NASA scientists

even though NASA scientists

even though NASA scientists
don't acknowledge them as genuine.

don't acknowledge them
as genuine.

NARRATOR:
But perhaps as intriguing as the various structures

seen on the surface of the Moon

are the numerous
reports of lights

and other
unexplainable activity.

Intermittent reflections

Intermittent reflections
emanating from the lunar surface

emanating from
the lunar surface

emanating from the lunar surface
have been observed for more than a century,

have been observed
for more than a century,

have been observed
for more than a century, including reports by famed

including reports by famed

astronomer
Francis Baily in 1835.

And the phenomenon

was also reported
by the Apollo 11 crew.

ALDRIN:
The windows are all dark,

and that's when I began seeing

a flash and a streak
and another flash.

And flicker flashes
we called them.

Kept seeing them.

And I said, "You guys
see anything unusual?

And I said, "You guys
see anything unusual? You see any flashes?"

You see any flashes?"

Neil said, "Yeah, I saw
about 100 of them."

"How about you, Mike?"
"No, I didn't see a thing."

Any deep analysis by the crew
as to what the hell it was?

No.
(laughs)

'Cause we were,
we were on our way home.

Let's let somebody else
worry about that.

WILCOCK:
These things were actually disclosed by NASA

in their own transient
lunar anomalies catalogue

in their own transient
lunar anomalies catalogue showing lights moving around,

showing lights moving around,

showing lights moving around,
showing puffs of smoke,

showing puffs of smoke,

showing things that should not
be there on the Moon's surface,

all of which suggests
that there is, in fact,

a very thriving
extraterrestrial community

a very thriving
extraterrestrial community living on the Moon today.

living on the Moon today.

NARRATOR:
Might there not only be structures

on the lunar surface
but also unidentified activity?

Activity that might
point to current

extraterrestrial
occupation of the Moon?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

and suggest that further
evidence may be found

and suggest that further
evidence may be found on the dark side of the Moon.

on the dark side of the Moon.

The Moon is in what we call

The Moon is in what we call
synchronous rotation with the Earth.

synchronous rotation
with the Earth.

That is that the effect
of the gravity

of the Earth and the Moon

means that the Moon
only shows us one side,

it is one face, the face
that we're all familiar with.

PAUL DAVIES: The reason
for this is because

when two objects get
close enough to each other,

they do become so-called
phase locked in that manner.

It means it presents
the same face

to the Earth the whole time.

JOHN BRANDENBURG:
Because of the tidal locking of the Moon's rotation,

it presents the same face.

And of course,
this leads to speculation

because this creates
a perfect place

to create large
installations on the Moon

that are not directly
observable from Earth.

Hypothetically,
the far side of the Moon,

it's an excellent place
to put bases,

and that has been a fixture
of a lot of science fiction.

MICHAEL SALLA:
There have been whistleblowers that say that they've been taken

to a base which is called
Lunar Operations Command

to a base which is called
Lunar Operations Command on the far side of the Moon

on the far side of the Moon

and that this base
is part of a network of bases

and that this base
is part of a network of bases on the far side of the Moon

on the far side of the Moon

that are run by various
secret space programs

and extraterrestrial
civilizations.

The Apollo missions have taken
surveillance photographs

of the Moon's surface
and some of the photographs

have shown what
appear to be structures.

? ?

NARRATOR:
Could it be that there are active bases

NARRATOR: Could it be that
there are active bases on the far side of the Moon?

on the far side of the Moon?

on the far side of the Moon?
And if so,

And if so,

have government officials
worked to keep this information

have government officials
worked to keep this information hidden from the public?

hidden from the public?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

and suggest that evidence
of extraterrestrial activity

has not only been discovered
on the lunar surface...

has not only been discovered
on the lunar surface... but also on the Red Planet.

but also on the Red Planet.

NARRATOR:
February 25, 2014.

554 solar days after
the Mars Curiosity rover

touched down, it beams
its latest high-resolution

panoramic photographs of
the Mars landscape to Earth.

Upon inspection,
amateur archaeologists

announce a startling discovery--

what appears to be an effigy
located at the Dingo Gap,

resembling a human statue.

The find is just one
of the dozens of strange

Earth-like objects
sighted in the rover images,

including a sarcophagus...

...a Buddha statue...

...and even a cross.

There are a lot of different
objects on Mars that people see,

or think they see,
in various rover images.

And it's really hard
to dismiss them

because they do look exactly

like sculptures
that human beings make.

And even after
a massive cataclysm,

like what apparently
took place on Mars,

you're gonna find remnants
from a lost civilization

you're gonna find remnants
from a lost civilization that's just leaving behind

that's just leaving behind

those last hints that
"We were here."

NARRATOR: Ancient astronaut
theorists have considered

that there may be artifacts
and unnatural structures on Mars

since the first images
were beamed back

from the Mars
Viking mission in 1979.

NASA officials claim
the perceived likeness

of formations on Mars
to man-made objects

is due to pareidolia,
where the mind perceives

a familiar pattern,
like seeing shapes in clouds.

But some imaging experts
are not convinced

that it's just
a trick of the eye.

Joe White has been working in
image restoration for 25 years,

Joe White has been working in
image restoration for 25 years, and claims to have found

and claims to have found

artifacts on the Martian
surface that defy explanation.

The rover images are
generally fairly close-up

and it is possible to spot
things like statue heads

and stone blocks,

sometimes with writing on
and carvings in them.

It's such a shame they, they do
so much to destroy these images.

But basically what they do
is they resize them down

so that the detail's all lost.

But because I've worked
in photographic restoration,

But because I've worked
in photographic restoration, I know how to do it.

I know how to do it.

All I've done with this is
actually enhanced the contrast

and sharpened it a little bit.

The details I noticed first

The details I noticed first
were particularly the eye and nose details

were particularly
the eye and nose details

on the front of the, of the,
the statue on the left here

with a very quite clear
mouth structure

with a very quite clear mouth structure
and what looks like an ear, just here.

and what looks like
an ear, just here.

And you have a long narrow
elongated cone head shape

to the statue.

Now this may well be
an elaborate headdress

on this statue here,
which seems to be broken off.

on this statue here,
which seems to be broken off. But it's hard to say for sure.

But it's hard to say for sure.

I mean this is a,
it's a damaged statue,

buried up to its chin

and there's probably a lot
more of it buried

just below in the sand.

But you can actually
see quite clearly

it's the sort of thing
you would expect to find

somewhere like
Central or South America.

NARRATOR:
Might there actually be ruins of a lost civilization

scattered across
the Martian landscape?

Ruins that mirror those
that exist on our own planet?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

and propose that this is one
of many artifacts on Mars

that seem to have
counterparts on our Earth.

that seem to have
counterparts on our Earth. Certain structures on Mars

Certain structures on Mars

may be completely related to
structures here on Earth.

On Mars we have structures
that look like pyramids.

There are standing stones

and Stonehenge type of
structures on Mars.

There's also a structure on
Mars that looks like a Sphinx.

BARA:
Around Cydonia there are many, many objects,

BARA:
Around Cydonia there are many, many objects,

including an area
called the city

where the so-called
face on Mars is located.

There's a massive
pentagonal pyramid,

there's a cluster
of other pyramidal objects

that are nearby.

And one of the things
that's really interesting

about the city is that
some people have pointed out

that if you take the apex

of all of the pyramidal
structures there--

and there are number of them--

that they basically match
the layout of the Pleiades.

Now, this is something
that we've seen here on Earth.

We've seen various ancient
architectural monuments

that are also laid out

to reflect the constellation
of the Pleiades.

TSOUKALOS: Is it possible
that the structures on Mars

are real
and of artificial origin?

That is something
where all of science says,

"No, impossible."

Well, is it really?

Water on Mars,
impossible, right?

Water on Mars,
impossible, right? No, it has been proven.

No, it has been proven.

So we have to ask ourselves,
"What civilization built this?

And what happened to them?"

NARRATOR:
Might the various structures and artifacts found

on the surface of Mars

really be evidence of
a past Martian civilization?

If so, why would this
information remain secret?

And might there be more

that the public
isn't being told?

Beyond obtaining
high-resolution photographs

as well as soil and air samples

as it travels across
the surface of the planet,

the $2.5 billion
Mars Curiosity rover

was also able to turn
the camera on itself.

A feature that enables
engineers at NASA

to diagnose and troubleshoot
issues from Earth.

Curiously, 50 solar days
into its mission,

the Rover beamed a mysterious
photograph back to Earth

showing what appeared
to some researchers

to be the shadow
of a human-like figure

to be the shadow
of a human-like figure working on the rover.

working on the rover.

working on the rover.
CHILDRESS: You could see a person there

CHILDRESS:
You could see a person there

and even it seemed that
he was not wearing a helmet,

but was in some kind of
gear and goggles.

And it made people speculate
that what might be going on

on Mars is more than what NASA
and also the military

space program has said
that we can achieve.

BARA:
NASA knows so much more about Mars than they are telling us.

They put pictures out,

they allow things to come out,

they do not comment
on them in general

but they just allow people
with eyes, who want to see,

to look at these things
and understand what they are.

But they don't say
anything about it

because they are constrained
by the political realities.

GEORGE NOORY:
A couple years ago,

we got a call from
a person named Jackie

who claimed that she was
a former NASA employee.

And she went on with
this profound story

And she went on with
this profound story about how our rovers

about how our rovers

had sent back pictures
that NASA has suppressed

of humans on Mars
walking around.

And she was very compelling.

She seemed to know exactly
what she was talking about.

There's always been a theory

that there's a space program

beyond the space program
that we know.

It's a black ops program.

It's the program where trillions
of dollars merely disappear,

and nobody knows
where the money went.

And nobody
knows what's going on.

NARRATOR:
Could there really be

a secret U.S. military
operation on Mars?

If so, just how long
has it been going on?

Some researchers suggest
that a feasible plan

to get to Mars was conceived

well before
we even made it to the Moon

and by the same scientist
that got us there.

STEPHEN PETRANEK:
Wernher von Braun was a rocket genius

and he was obsessed
with going to Mars.

He was obsessed with rocketry.

And he wrote a book in 1948
called The Mars Project.

And he wrote a book in 1948 called The Mars Project.
And it's basically a 91-page manual

And it's basically
a 91-page manual

And it's basically
a 91-page manual on how to get to Mars.

on how to get to Mars.

It has all the computations
worked out,

all the formulas for
what home and transfer orbits

all the formulas for
what home and transfer orbits you need to use to get to Mars.

you need to use to get to Mars.

He actually projected

that he could put
people on Mars by 1965.

Everything he put
in that 91-page manual

Everything he put
in that 91-page manual is actually still valid today.

is actually still valid today.

NOORY:
Wernher von Braun outlined our plan

to go to Mars and colonize it.

Well, everybody thinks,
"Well, we just never did that."

There are other people
that think we took his playbook

and that we indeed
did colonize Mars,

and that we have a colony
of astronauts there

right now under his tutelage
when he was alive.

WILCOCK:
There's compelling evidence

that von Braun
was working secretly

with elements
of the U.S. government

in an attempt to try
to make it to Mars.

Is it possible that was done?

Is it possible that was done?
Do you think it's possible

Do you think it's possible

the government could keep
something a secret?

Absolutely.

Go back to
the Manhattan Project.

When they developed
the nuclear bomb,

When they developed
the nuclear bomb, there was over 140,000 personnel

there was over 140,000 personnel

there was over 140,000 personnel
involved in that program.

involved in that program.

No one squealed.

No one said
what they were doing,

and many of those people
were unaware

and many of those people
were unaware of what they were working on

of what they were working on

until the bomb itself
was detonated.

So von Braun
could've been working

on a secret Mars program,

and with the same
level of secrecy

and with the same
level of secrecy as the Manhattan Project,

as the Manhattan Project,

it still to this day
could be highly classified

and never released
to the public at large.

NARRATOR:
Werner von Braun's genius is

credited with being the reason
we ever made it to the Moon.

But did he accomplished more of
his vision than we've been told?

And might he also
have orchestrated

And might he also
have orchestrated a secret mission to Mars?

a secret mission to Mars?

NARRATOR:
American astronauts

Neil Armstrong
and Edwin "Buzz" Aldrin

become the first humans
to land on the Moon.

ARMSTRONG:
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.

NARRATOR:
But there are some who believe

this was not
the first Moon landing,

and that other highly
classified missions preceded it.

In 2014, declassified
documents revealed

that the United States had
a secret project underway

in 1959

in 1959
to not just reach the Moon,

to not just reach the Moon,

but even establish
military bases there by 1965.

BARA:
When President Kennedy said, "We're gonna go to the Moon,"

there were many,
many proposals on the table.

One of them was called
Project Horizon.

One of them was called Project Horizon.
And the idea behind Project Horizon

And the idea behind
Project Horizon

was that we would launch
more than 140 rockets

was that we would launch
more than 140 rockets up into low Earth orbit,

up into low Earth orbit,

assemble basically
empty fuel containers,

large tubes,
send them to the Moon,

soft land them on the Moon
and assemble them together

into a permanent Moon base

that would start
with about 20 astronauts,

and eventually be
populated by hundreds.

The idea being that we would
establish a permanent

military presence on
the surface of the Moon.

NARRATOR:
Project Horizon was the brainchild

of Wernher von Braun,
the former Nazi rocket scientist

whose multistage rocket
design is still used today.

In addition to establishing
bases on the Moon,

In addition to establishing bases on the Moon,
Wernher von Braun had another goal--

Wernher von Braun
had another goal--

to reach Mars.

to reach Mars.
He considered this to be achievable

He considered this
to be achievable

He considered this
to be achievable even as far back as the 1960s,

even as far back as the 1960s,

even as far back as the 1960s,
and there are those who claim

and there are those who claim

that the United States
and other nations

that the United States
and other nations have bases there right now.

have bases there right now.

One of the first alleged
missions to Mars

was a project called
Solar Warden.

At least one person,
Corey Goode,

has come forward to say
that he was recruited

for Project Solar Warden.

GOODE:
I was identified in standardized testing in school

as being an intuitive empath.

It was at that point
that they brought me

It was at that point
that they brought me into this training program

into this training program

that would last from the age of
about six years old

to about 17 years old,

when I was officially
drafted into Solar Warden.

? ?

Very soon after joining
the space program,

I was assigned to
a research vessel.

I was doing communications.

A subprogram

that I was a part of
in the beginning was called

the Intruder Intercept
and Interrogation Program.

Different beings were living
on our planet amongst us,

and the mandate was
to capture these beings,

interrogate them,
and find out why they were here.

The United States
secret space program,

its roots actually
go back to Nazi Germany.

its roots actually go back to Nazi Germany.
A lot of the scientists that we obtained

A lot of the scientists
that we obtained

in Operation Paperclip

were in contact
with the breakaway society

that had already
developed spacecraft.

Currently, there are at least
three dozen nations involved.

Some of the countries
involved right now

Some of the countries
involved right now are countries like Estonia,

are countries like Estonia,

the Ukraine, and of course,
we have the larger players,

the United States,
China, Germany, Russia.

Britain is also a large player
in the secret space program.

(indistinct radio chatter)

NARRATOR:
Could there really be over 30 different countries

with secret operations
in outer space...

...working at bases
on both the Moon and Mars?

According to Corey Goode,
not only is this true

but the first members of
these secret space programs

found that when they reached
these celestial bodies,

they were not
the first visitors.

GOODE:
When the secret space program began to travel to other bodies

in our solar system, they were
finding ancient structures.

They quickly dubbed the people
that built these structures

the ancient builder race.

What our astronauts
were mainly finding

were structures that had been
destroyed a long time ago,

and they were very
interesting structures.

Some of them were
floating off of the ground

and were mostly complete.

Others were
completely shattered.

NARRATOR:
Could Corey Goode's incredible claims be true?

Curiously, evidence
supporting his allegations

were uncovered
by a computer hacker

who had gained access

to NASA's secret files.

? ?

London, England.
March 19, 2002.

At 8:00 a.m., the National
Hi-Tech Crime Unit

arrives at the home
of 34-year-old

Scottish systems
administrator Gary McKinnon.

They're there to arrest him

on behalf of the United States
Justice Department and NASA.

For the past year,
McKinnon has been hacking

into top secret Pentagon
and NASA computers.

What he uncovered
were files that he claims

could provide undeniable proof

that a secret space program
truly exists.

Among the things I found,
there was an Excel spreadsheet

entitled
"Non-Terrestrial Officers,"

which I took to be
a space-going fleet

made of human personnel,
not aliens.

made of human personnel,
not aliens. It did list their names.

It did list their names.

I couldn't find them
on the Internet, at the time.

There was also a list of ships.

I googled the ship names.
There were no matches.

So I knew they weren't
ocean-going vessels.

NARRATOR:
According to McKinnon,

the most shocking file
he came across

was on a computer
at NASA's Johnson Space Center.

was on a computer at NASA's Johnson Space Center.
Within a folder labeled "unfiltered"

Within a folder
labeled "unfiltered"

Within a folder
labeled "unfiltered" he spotted a thumbnail image

he spotted a thumbnail image

of a hi-res
NASA satellite photo,

which appeared to
depict an unusual spacecraft.

I double-clicked on this image

I double-clicked on this image
and it was coming down very slowly.

and it was
coming down very slowly.

But I could see this tubular,
a classic cigar-shaped UFO,

with these kind of
geodesic domes

like half a golf ball
stuck on top and underneath.

like half a golf ball
stuck on top and underneath. And, um, I'm just amazed,

And, um, I'm just amazed,

because I've found real evidence
of what I thought was a UFO,

although it could have been
a secret spaceship-- who knows?

But there it was in front
of me coming down the screen.

And then suddenly
I saw the mouse move,

across the screen
right-click the LAN icon

and choose "disconnect."

and choose "disconnect."
And lost the chance

And lost the chance

to fully transfer
the photo to my machine.

So it was a Eureka moment,
but also, "Aw, they got me."

NARRATOR:
According to Corey Goode,

what Gary McKinnon discovered

in the top secret
Pentagon and NASA files

in the top secret Pentagon and NASA files
is in line with his own experiences.

is in line with
his own experiences.

Gary ended up being
the first person to uncover

tangible proof of these
programs through his hacking.

Interestingly enough,
the information he obtained

on the different types
of spacecraft,

the non-terrestrial officers,

fleet-to-fleet transfers,

all of this perfectly coincided
with Project Solar Warden.

NARRATOR:
Corey claims that the Majestic 12 documents

from the 1950s,

which revealed that
interactions were taking place

between government officials
and numerous alien species,

are accurate as well.

Currently,
in the secret space programs,

Currently,
in the secret space programs, we've been dealing with

we've been dealing with

approximately 60 different
non-terrestrial groups

that have come here.

And some of those groups
are interacting

with the governments
of the world right now.

NARRATOR:
If there really are both

NARRATOR:
If there really are both alien and human factions

alien and human factions

operating throughout
our solar system,

how much longer can it be
kept hidden from the public?

Ancient astronaut
theorists suggest

recent government
statements reveal

that the truth
will soon be disclosed.

? ?

New Delhi, India.
January 2010.

The India space program
announces plans

The India space program announces plans
for their first manned trip to the Moon.

for their first
manned trip to the Moon.

China, Russia,
and the United States

all have similar plans
in the works.

There are also numerous planned
missions to Mars currently

in development by both private
and public organizations.

In the midst of this new fervor
for space exploration,

on April 7, 2015,

NASA Chief Scientist
Ellen Stofan

makes a bold statement

concerning the discovery
of extraterrestrial life.

I think we're gonna
have strong indications

of life beyond Earth
within a decade.

And I think we're gonna have
definitive evidence

And I think we're gonna have
definitive evidence within 20 to 30 years.

within 20 to 30 years.

When we look at that statement

and we compare it with the new
lunar and Martian missions

that are coming up...

...we have reason to believe

that we may be
getting prepared drip by drip

for an open
public acknowledgement

of the reality of
a secret space program

that has been in existence

throughout much
of the 20th century,

and only now is going to be
revealed to us.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible that after over six decades

of avoiding
the extraterrestrial question,

government officials are now
preparing to release information

government officials are now
preparing to release information related to the existence

related to the existence

of other intelligences
in the universe?

Ancient astronaut
theorists say yes,

and suggest further evidence

can be found with
the creation of a new branch

of the U.S. military--
the Space Force.

NARRATOR:
June 20, 2018.

The White House Office
of Science and Technology

releases an 18-page report.

It outlines what NASA and FEMA--

the Federal Emergency
Management Agency--

must do in the next decade
to prevent deadly asteroids

from crashing into Earth.

The document covers everything
from earlier detection

and possible deflection,

to ways of dealing
with the fallout

from a catastrophic impact.

We have a lot of
these small bodies,

these things that are
coming out of the asteroid belt.

These rocky meteors
that then impact the Earth.

So over the last 15 years,

we've studied
how many are there,

how many cross our orbit.

And we find that there are
some really big ones.

And we find that there are
some really big ones. They are going to hit the Earth.

They are going to hit the Earth.

It's not a matter of if.
It's only a matter of when.

We get a single hit

from an asteroid
that's as big as the one

that took out the dinosaurs--

and that, by the way,
is a 100% probability

that that is gonna happen,
sooner or later--

when that happens,
all human life on Earth

comes to a halt
and we go extinct.

All of our proverbial eggs
are in this one basket.

If anything happens to us,

if there is a asteroid incident,

if there is
a human disaster created,

every element of our culture
can get wiped out instantly.

NARRATOR:
In recent years,

more and more experts
have come forward

more and more experts
have come forward to stress the importance

to stress the importance

of establishing human
settlements off Earth

in order to ensure
the continuation of the species.

But is humankind
still many years away

from having the capability to
realize this ambitious goal?

Or could efforts
to colonize Mars

Or could efforts
to colonize Mars be much further along

be much further along

than the government
is willing to reveal?

Boulder, Colorado.
August 8, 2018.

Tech titan and
SpaceX founder Elon Musk

convenes a secret meeting
of high-level scientists,

engineers, and space
colonization experts.

The 60 attendees are warned
not to publicize anything

about the meeting or even
acknowledge their participation.

But news of the meeting leaks,

sparking widespread speculation.

Why such secrecy
from its organizer,

a man who rarely shies away
from the spotlight?

Some have suggested
there could be a connection

to an event that happened
seven weeks earlier.

President Donald Trump's call
for the establishment

of a new branch
of the U.S. military--

the Space Force.

So recently President Trump
announced a space force.

Basically, what he is saying is,
we are going to develop

an outer space initiative,
a deep space program...

...that's gonna be started
from the military,

controlled by the military,"

and, apparently,
will have militaristic aims.

Now, some people may
find this alarming,

Now, some people may find this alarming,
but others may look at it and say,

but others
may look at it and say,

but others
may look at it and say, what's really happening here

what's really happening here

is a very, very crucial
moment in human history

and in the history
of the United States

where we are stepping into space
in a real, real serious way.

POPE:
In relation to the space program,

the private sector players,

the private sector players,
the billionaires, the Elon Musks,

the billionaires,
the Elon Musks,

these are increasingly
the people

these are increasingly
the people making the decisions on this.

making the decisions on this.

It's almost as if government
is losing control of this.

Or it might be now wholly
in the private sector.

Maybe being deliberately moved.

It is I think sometimes
more difficult for people

to find out what's going on
in the private sector

than actually what's
going on in government.

I had an interview once
with an astronaut

about the fact that,
if we don't get ourselves,

about the fact that, if we don't get ourselves,
get some contingency of humans off...

get some contingency
of humans off...

...some on the Moon,
some on Mars,

and going beyond
that eventually,

Homo sapien sapien,
as a species,

Homo sapien sapien,
as a species, if confined only to Earth,

if confined only to Earth,

might face
an existential crisis.

We deserve to know the truth.

That there is alien intelligence

That there is alien intelligence
and our government knows about it

and our government
knows about it

and our government
knows about it in great detail, and now,

in great detail, and now,

we're finally
at the intersection, in time,

where that has to break out
if we're going

to grow and go beyond Earth

and start moving out
into our own solar system.

NARRATOR:
Is it possible

that there are people within
the United States government

who already know

that the first astronauts
to land on Mars

will encounter intelligent
extraterrestrial life?

And are they secretly
working with billionaires

in order to help
carry out preparations

for this inevitability
outside of the public eye?

As far as ancient astronaut
theorists are concerned,

whatever the government
does or does not know,

as we begin
to migrate off Earth,

all of humanity will soon
learn the truth--

that we are not alone
in the universe.

I think what we're very near

I think what we're very near
is an event, a discovery.

is an event, a discovery.

Could be on the Moon,
could be Mars,

could be maybe Proxima Centauri
or any of our local stars,

where we're gonna
understand that everything

that ancient astronaut theorists
have been talking about is true.

We human beings,

we fancy ourselves as,
you know, being pioneers

and wanting to be the first.

And that's wonderful.
We are pioneers.

We are the first on many,
many things.

But what if we arrive on Mars,

we actually land there,

we actually land there,
and there are artificial structures?

and there are
artificial structures?

It's just the closing
of a gigantic circle.

NARRATOR:
If officials have known that alien life exists,

NARRATOR: If officials have known
that alien life exists, not only out in the cosmos

not only out in the cosmos

but even in our own backyard,

could they finally be preparing

to release this information
to the public?

to release this information
to the public? Might the photos and videos

Might the photos and videos

of anomalous objects
on the surface of the Moon

and Mars,

and the testimony
from astronauts

have been part of
an orchestrated disclosure?

One designed to avoid panic

and gradually reveal
an incredible new reality?

Perhaps we are just now

reaching the day when
the United States government

reaching the day when the United States government
will deem it safe to reveal the truth--

will deem it safe
to reveal the truth--

that we are not alone.

that we are not alone.
We have never been alone.

We have never been alone.

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